At least 75 people have left Swede to fight in Syria since mid-2012, more than doubling an estimate from earlier this year, Sweden's security police, SAPO, says.
At least 54 people have been killed and scores wounded in a string of attacks in the capital and around Iraq, medical and police sources said.
Iran's deputy foreign minister will meet the European Union's top diplomat this week, the bloc said Monday.
Secretary of State John Kerry says he expects the continuation of aid to Syrian militants, suspended last week following the seizure of a warehouse by foreign backed militants, to resume very quickly.
One of five people living in Lebanon are refugees who have fled the conflict in neighboring Syria, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said Monday.
Bahrain’s Al Khalifa regime beats and tortures children who have been detained on suspicion of taking part in anti-regime protests, Amnesty International says.
Syrian Parliament speaker Mohammad Jihad al-Laham has sent out a letter to parliaments across the world, warning about the threat of Wahhabi thought spreading in the world.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says blacklisting new entities by US over Iran sanctions is a very wrong move.
Suspects in the deadly overnight attack on the Lebanese Army in south Lebanon likely had links to both Salafi-labelled Sheikh Ahmad Assir and al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra Front.
Turkey has transferred more than 47 tons of arsenals to Syria to help militants in their deadly war on Syrian government, a UN report says.